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AP Interactives
Through a partnership with Associated Press, this research database combines breaking news photos, graphics and audio into unique interactive packages on critical topics and issues. Presented in easy-to-use formats, the Interactives enable your students and patrons to gain insight on a wide range of topics ranging from historical events (including wars, battles, elections, politics, etc.), natural disasters (earthquakes, hurricanes, etc), to science topics, and current events. Formats may include text, audio, video, animated graphics, photographs and/or still graphics, and initiates its non-linear content sequences in response to user interaction.
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Business and Company Resource Center
Because business information is only as good as its source, provide your users with a comprehensive, single-source database they can depend on for accurate and up-to-date business, company and industry information -- Gale's Business & Company Resource Center. The first of its kind, Business & Company Resource Center brings together a wide variety of global business information, enabling users to efficiently research business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career and investment opportunities.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
There's no better way to keep up with literary perspectives, clear shelf space and give users the familiar engaging book experience 24/7 than Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online. For 30 years, libraries have looked to Dictionary of Literary Biography for biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of the world's most influential literary figures. Now imagine this print reference -16,000 articles and thousands of images - online and digitized to match the look and feel of the print source! This award-winning content is now easy to search, retrieve and analyze.
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Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context is a new electronic resource that offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues. Not a pro and con database, Global Issues in Context ties together a variety of sources to present a rich analysis of issues ­ social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural ­ and headlines in world hot spots. It provides information seekers with a framework to better understand 21st-century issues and events while highlighting global connections and the interdependence of all nations.
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Literature Resource Center with Modern Language Association International Bibliography, Twayne's Authors Series, and Scribner Writers Series
Literature Resource Center is the world's most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature database. Uniquely relevant to today's curriculum, Literature Resource Center's rich critical, biographical and contextual materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
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LitFinder
LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, 5,000 full-text short stories, 2,800 full-text essays, 1,800 full-text speeches, and 1,000 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. A subject navigator provides over 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline, and more.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Cengage Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking supplements Gale's Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center with additional content and features that correlate with today's curriculum. Learners interact with entries and are asked to think critically about a specific topic. The content is comprised of reference and periodical resources and covers broad topics such as "school violence" or "acid rain". Each topic has three entries: an overview and two viewpoint essays. Entries also are available in audio format. All of the content is correlated with national and state standards.
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Something about the Author Online
The new Something About the Author Online provides first-time comprehensive electronic access to all volumes ever printed in Something About the Author, the main series and Something About the Author: Autobiography Series - 217 volumes, more than 12,000 entries and nearly 17,000 images.
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